Jilted employee live-tweets layoffs—from company account

An employee at the company—later identified as 21-year-old social media planner Rose Cleere, who was among those laid off—live-tweeted the events from the HMV Twitter account, blasting messages to the company's 70,000 followers.

The tweets contained a healthy dose of gallows humor. For instance:

“We’re tweeting live from HR where we’re all being fired! Exciting!! #hmvXFactorFiring”

According to the London Evening Standard newspaper, Cleere has received "many job offerings" following the incident.